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Liquid Life
Taschenbuch von Zygmunt Bauman
Sprache: Englisch

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'Liquid life' is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern society cannot keep its shape for long. Liquid life is a precarious life, lived under conditions of constant uncertainty.

The most acute and stubborn worries that haunt this liquid life are the fears of being caught napping, of failing to catch up with fast moving events, of overlooking the 'use by' dates and being saddled with worthless possessions, of missing the moment calling for a change of tack and being left behind. Liquid life is also shot through by a contradiction: it ought to be a (possibly unending) series of new beginnings, yet precisely for that reason it is full of worries about swift and painless endings, without which new beginnings would be unthinkable. Among the arts of liquid-modern living and the skills needed to practice them, getting rid of things takes precedence over their acquisition.

This and other challenges of life in a liquid-modern society are traced and unravelled in the successive chapters of this new book by one of the most brilliant and original social thinkers of our time.

'Liquid life' is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern society cannot keep its shape for long. Liquid life is a precarious life, lived under conditions of constant uncertainty.

The most acute and stubborn worries that haunt this liquid life are the fears of being caught napping, of failing to catch up with fast moving events, of overlooking the 'use by' dates and being saddled with worthless possessions, of missing the moment calling for a change of tack and being left behind. Liquid life is also shot through by a contradiction: it ought to be a (possibly unending) series of new beginnings, yet precisely for that reason it is full of worries about swift and painless endings, without which new beginnings would be unthinkable. Among the arts of liquid-modern living and the skills needed to practice them, getting rid of things takes precedence over their acquisition.

This and other challenges of life in a liquid-modern society are traced and unravelled in the successive chapters of this new book by one of the most brilliant and original social thinkers of our time.

Über den Autor
Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: On Living in a Liquid-Modern World.

1. The Individual Under Siege.

2. From Martyr to Hero, and from Hero to Celebrity.

3. Culture: Obstreperous and Unmanageable.

4. Seeking Shelter in a Pandora Box or Fear, Security and the City.

5. Consumers in Liquid-Modern Times.

Consuming Life.

Consuming Body.

Consuming Childhood.

6. Learning to Walk in Quicksand.

7. Thinking in Dark Times (Arendt and Adorno Revisited).

Notes.

Index.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780745635156
ISBN-10: 0745635156
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bauman, Zygmunt
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße: 231 x 154 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Zygmunt Bauman
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2005
Gewicht: 0,268 kg
Artikel-ID: 102418634
Über den Autor
Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: On Living in a Liquid-Modern World.

1. The Individual Under Siege.

2. From Martyr to Hero, and from Hero to Celebrity.

3. Culture: Obstreperous and Unmanageable.

4. Seeking Shelter in a Pandora Box or Fear, Security and the City.

5. Consumers in Liquid-Modern Times.

Consuming Life.

Consuming Body.

Consuming Childhood.

6. Learning to Walk in Quicksand.

7. Thinking in Dark Times (Arendt and Adorno Revisited).

Notes.

Index.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780745635156
ISBN-10: 0745635156
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bauman, Zygmunt
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße: 231 x 154 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Zygmunt Bauman
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2005
Gewicht: 0,268 kg
Artikel-ID: 102418634
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